About Kartik Krishnaiyer

A lifelong lover of soccer, the beautiful game, he served from January 2010 until May 2013 as the Director of Communications and Public Relations for the North American Soccer League (NASL).
Raised on the Fort Lauderdale Strikers of the old NASL, Krishnaiyer previously hosted the American Soccer Show on the Champions Soccer Radio Network, the Major League Soccer Talk podcast and the EPL Talk Podcast.
His soccer writing has been featured by several media outlets including The Guardian and The Telegraph. He is the author of the book Blue With Envy about Manchester City FC.
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Did that dude say he could recruit a team of kids out of the poor neighborhoods of Houston that could “beat any team in the world?” Wha? Huh?

No you couldn’t. Not a chance. Even if he meant beat any other youth team in the world, no, sorry, you couldn’t. I don’t disagree with the general idea that at some point a cultural change where athletes of all races and classes aspire to become soccer players like they aspire to the NBA and NFL would be nice. But that’s not what he said. He said he could “beat any team in the world” with a team recruited from the ‘hood in Houston. If that’s true, the Dynamo are pretty stupid. For that matter, so are Real Madrid, Chelsea, and all of the other biggest, richest, smartest clubs in the world.

Wow–Completely agree–Had to pick my jaw up off the floor when he said that–Hard to take these guys seriously as “experts” when they make comments like that–If there was so much talent in the apartments in Houston that he could in “one week” put together a U.S. team that would “beat any other team in the world” then teams like Man Utd, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Inter, Ac Milan, Barca, etc would be there picking it clean